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VOL. XXVII. No. 12
By International Labor News Service.
New York City.—"Open shop" in
fluences that are trying to play foot
ball with the state industrial survey
commission attempted to put one over
at a public hearing on the construction
industry. Early in the year it was
pointed out that a strong propaganda
was being planned to counteract the
growing influence of union labor in
the state. A number of avowed foes
of labor on the commission helped the
campaign along. Finally it reached
its peak with the demand for a "build
ing czar."
The outcry was made by Chi'istian
G. Norman, manager of the New York
Building Trades Employers' Associa
tion. He generalized on widespread
abuses in the building trades, of which
he is one of the leading lights. He
urged a "building czar" be named, al
leging conditions were as bad as un
der the regime of the late Robert P.
Brindell.
Hackenburg Exposes Plan
Demand for "Building Czar"
[Assailed as Scheme to Get
Dictator to Crush Workers
Again Assemblyman Hackenburg
challenged this attack on labor, re
marking that it was not a "building
czar" these employers wanted but a
Mussolini, who would crush labor
Unfortunately Samuel Untermyer
who uncovered the alliance between
Brindell and Norman, is extremely
busy unearthing the underground con
spiracy of the traction trust against
labor, or he would have exposed the
virtuous Norman as only Untermyer
can do it.
The plumbers, after twelve weeks
strike for the five-day* week in Brook
lyn, have been compelled to submit
to arbitration of both their hour and
their wage demand. The logic of the
situation for the entire building traces
will not admit of any other outcome
than the five-day week. The employ
ers, who have as much to gain as the
union by stabilizing an overdeveloped
condition, are resisting blindly.
Two Trades in Vanguard
If the plumbers do not gain the
five-day week they boldly struck for,
it will still leave the painters and
plasterers in the vanguard. For
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years now the painters have not work
ed Saturdays or Sundays. The plas
tere»s established the five-day week
two years ago. The bricklayers and
the carpenters seem to be intent on
going along on the basis of the 44
hour week in view of the tapering off
of construction here.
One anti-labor force that is getting
severe excoriation is the In
terborough Rapid Transit Company.
Its fake union and its manipulated
strikes have been exposed again.
Organizers of the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Street and Electrical Rail
way Employes are active, seeking to
enroll the 20,000 subway, elevated and
street car employes in another union
drive like that of ten years ago, when
the union forces swept down from
Yonkers.
Trend With Labor
Thus far the trend seems to be all
with labor. Independence Day cele
brations throughout the state would
take on new meaning if the "open
shop" rings in steel and iron erection,
traction, and the metal industry gen
erally could be broken.
TRICKY
Bookkeeping to Cover Strike
Loss
Pittsburgh, Pa.—An unnamed offi
cial of the anti-union Pittsburgh Ter
minal Coal Corporation says this con
cer®, will show a deficit this year, but
if a "satisfactory" wage scale can be
established, the loss will be considered
as capital investment.
Tricky bookkeeping to conceal strike
losses is also used by the Pittsburgh
Coal Company, another concern that
repudiated its agreement with the
United Mine Workers.
The latter concern lost more than
$3,000,000 the last two years, and is
issuing additional common stock for
"plant improvements."
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THE BUTLER COUNTY
By JOSEPH A. WISE
Staff
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An Extraordinary Event
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of advertising. Be sure to attend this sale.
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Correspondent, International
Labor News Service
Chicago.—The recent signing of a
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Independence Day
Chicago Brickmakers and Employers
Show Trade Unionism Is Sound Business
Bricks Made in Windy City
Undersell Non-Union Product,
While Men Get Highest Wages
new wage scale and agreement be
tween the United Brick and Clay
Workers, representing the employes,
and the Chicago Brick Exchange and
the Noll Brick Company, for the em
ployers, covering the 26 brickyards in
the Chicago district, reveals a remark
le contrast between conditions pre
vailing in the industry in and around
icago, where it is 100 per cent
ionized, and the conditions existing
other large centers which boast of
ng 100 per cent "open shop."
A.s an example, New York and Chi
v*o furnish a remarkable contrast.
ick is sold in Chicago, delivered at
•i job, for $12 per thousand. Brick
$20 per thousand in New York.
:nployers in the industry in New
•rk are unorganized and receive only
e-half as much wages as do the
ion brickmakers of Chicago.
Brick cost $16 per thousand at
uisville, Ky. Employes in the in
stry there are unorganized and
rk under conditions that virtually
lount to slavery.
iy of Non-Union Brickmakers Cut
At the very time that the union
ickmakers of Chicago were closing
new wage scale granting an in
i ease in wages and a shortening of
urs the unorganized, "free and in
i. pendent," "American plan" brick
akers of Detroit, Mich., received
ut of 50 cents a day, and the Detroit
rick
manufacturers obtain a higher
ice for their product than is charged
Chicago.
According to Frank Kasten and
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William Tracy, international president I black man.
and secretary-treasurer, respectively,
of the United Brick and Clay Work
ers, brick are sold at a lower price
and manufactured under a higher
scale of wages in the Chicago district
than anywhere else in the United
States.
What is the answer to this seeming
ly impossible situation? Kasten and
Tracy reply by saying that organiza
tion and high wages attract a better
grade of men, promote ambition, raise
the standard of workmanship and
skill and increase morale, which result]
The agreement also provides for 141
Saturday half holidays between Me
morial Day and Labor Day. Thisl
will cut down layoffs in other parts
of the year. The increases in wages
will amount to $100,000 a year, dis-l
tributed among 3,000 men.
The enlightened and humane em-|
ployers affiliated with the Chicago
Brick Exchange are represented by
William Bohnsack, president, and Wil
liam Schlake, business representative.
These two gentlemen and the employ
ers they represent are honest-to-God
100 per cent Americans and fighters
for the things that are right. Their
employes recognize them as real men
and go along with them. This is not
bunk it is the truth.
Finds Both Sides Play Square Game
I have seen the union brick manu
facturers and the international rep
resentatives of their union employes
in action when under fire from the
"open shop" entrenchments, and I was
thrilled with pride and admiration for
the performance of Schlake, Kasten
and Tracy.
Employers of "open shop" centers
would benefit themselves financially,
morally and spiritually were they to
come to Chicago and study the meth
-ds of industrial leaders*who have
concepts beyond and above the ac
cumulation of wealth as represented
by dollars and other material things.
UNENFORCEABLE
LAWS WEAKEN
GOVERNMENTS
London, England.—"The most dam
aging criticism of the government's
anti-trade union bill is that based
upon its impracticability," says W. A.
Appleton, secretary of the General
Federation of Trade Unions. This or
ganization is an insurance body, com
posed of unions generally affiliated to
the British Trade Union Congress.
"To add laws to the statute book
which cannot be enforced is the worst
form of public policy," said Mr. Ap
pleton. "Such laws are like wooden
guns- -contemptuous in a pageant and
useless in a fight. Threats that can
not be made effective and penalties
that cannot be imposed, are the stock
in trade of impotent men and weak
governments.
"No one wants a weak government,
for a weak government always op
presses the helpless."
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in an output superior in both qualityl are how weak and nervous
and quantity.
Pay is Raised, Hours Are Shortened!
The new wage scale for the Chicago
district provides for increases of from
cents to 5 cents an hour for all men|
receiving less than 95 cents an hour.
The minimum scale is 80 cents an
hour, and applies only to aged andl
incapacitated men who perform light|
but necessary work around the yard.
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By International Labor News Service.
Albany, N. Y.—The Fourth of July
this year marks the one hundredth
anniversary of the freeing of the ne
gro slaves in New York state. Its
significance has not been lost sight of
by the New York State Federation of
Labor. John M. O'Hanlon, secre
tary-treasurer, has broadcast through
the state the meaning of the celebra
tion. It was the white laborers, who
agitated against slavery, who share
rightly in the celebration. There is
no color line drawn in the labor move
ment as a general rule.
One hundred years ago many of the
white laborers were enslaved by in
denture laws, many were little more
than chattels, having bound them
selves for a number of years to a mas
ter to work out the cost of their pas
sage from the old country. Only
thirty year ago, O'Hanlon recalls the
misery of Russian and Polish emi
grants who came through Albany from
Canada, half starved, sickly and
wretched and had to be cared for
here. Those days are gone forever.
Labor Recalls Part Played
By White Workers in Freeing
Negro Slaves 100 Years Ago
The liberation of the slaves by leg
islation in New York is regarded as
the first labor law of the state. It
was the first labor law in many states,
for it laid the foundation of free labor
of which the present wage system is
the outcome.
Vermont was the first state in the
Union to free the slaves. Then came
Massachusetts, long a center of agita
tion against human bondage. In 1827
New York struck the shackles off the
Few realize it but the negroes were
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theless their labor helped to build the
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rule of Peter Stuyvesant. They hewed
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surrounding New Yoi'k under the Brit
ish, they fought in the Rovlution for
the "rights of man" although they
were enslaved. One of the four vic
tims of the Boston massacre was Cris
pus Attucks, a mulatto. The patriots
of the city gave him a public burial
from Fanuiel Hall. No color line was
drawn then.
The final clash between free labor
and slave labor found the labor move
ment back of the liberating movement.
It was mainly an economic motive,
trade union leaders point out, just as
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the attainment of union labor advan
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LINCOLN J. FIELDING PASSES
Oxnard, Cal.—Lincoln J. Fielding,
former general vice president of the
International Brotherhood of Black
smiths, died here after a sliort ill
ness.
CARPENTERS RAISE WAGES
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of 5 cents an hour has been secured
by organized carpenters. The new
rate is $1.15.
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